Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
4008
Building Number
1  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
02/08/1988  
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988  
Name of Property
1 Fron Dirion Terrace  
Address
1 Fron Dirion Terrace  

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Bangor  
Town
 
Locality
Glanrafon Hill  
Easting
257770  
Northing
372117  
Street Side
 
Location
Set in the slop above Bryn Teg Terrace with front gardens, rubble forecourt walls and iron railings.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Built in 1851.  

Exterior
Late Georgian with Greek Revival influences; 2-storey with modern attics. 2-window rendered fronts with giant order panelled pilasters; heavily ornamented capitals and entablature with floral dentils and stucco wreaths. Slate roof and rendered chimney stacks, those to ends have arched headed panels. Wide eaves to left gable end; arched headed window to right gable end and pilasters projected at both ends. Nos 2 and 3 have bay windows, that to No 2 is squared and has similar ornament to the 1st floor cill band; that to No 3 is modern and splayed. A bay window may have been removed from No 1. Cross frame windows over the entrances, otherwise 3-light windows to No 2 and modern casement glazing to Nos 1 and 3. No 3 has doorcase with pedimented and stucco decorated lintel and arched panelled door; the window above, and that to No 2, has similarly enriched detail. Modernised rear to Nos 1 and 2; extension to No 3 with sash windows.  

Interior
The interior of No 2 retains arched ninches and an elaborate deep cornice with interlace decoration to the 1st floor Drawing room; cornice removed over bay window perhaps to take a Victorian pelmet.  

Reason for designation
Group value with neighbouring terraces on Glanrafon Hill.  

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